Where does Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. ranks #944 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. hold?

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. holds 469 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. focus on?

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 251 patents, ranking #11 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

Is Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -74% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s patents?

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s patents average 15.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.

Q: How is the Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 469 granted patents across 85 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Varian ranks #944 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 469 patents across 85 technology areas.

#944
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R944 · US Corporation #944 · 469 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 469 grants
TOP-DECILE #944/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Directv
CPC-WIDE H01J · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Directv, LLC (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Varian’s 56.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 21.3 pts (38%) Velocity 0.8 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
British American… · near

56
Kent State University · near

56
Matthews International · near

56
Varian Semiconductor… · this assignee

56
Verint Americas · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Varian's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Varian?

Each dot is one of Varian’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Varian’s own 15.6 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Varian vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Varian's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. received 97 grants versus 372 in 2015–2019 (-74% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 84 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class H01J accounts for 53.5% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Trading Technologies International, Inc. (#940) and Phison Electronics Corp. (#948).

Varian's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. moved from 144 to 18 grants (0.13x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,152. See the growth leaderboard.

Trading Internati…

472
Adeia Guides

470
Directv

469
Nordson

469
Varian Semiconduc… ◀

469
Nanyang Technolog…

468
Ramot at Tel-aviv…

468
Ibiden

467
Phison

466

What this shows Varian holds 469 patents at rank #944, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Varian

By rank, the assignees closest to #944 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Varian's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Varian, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), Varian ranks #11 of 1,076 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Verint Americas Inc. 56 British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited 56 Kent State University 56 Matthews International Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Brunswick Corporation 15.6 avg Arizona Board OF Regents FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University 15.6 avg Devicor Medical Products, Inc. 15.6 avg Alcon Research, Ltd. 15.6 avg

Varian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	84	17.9%
2016	79	16.8%
2017	70	14.9%
2018	74	15.8%
2019	65	13.9%
2020	56	11.9%
2021	23	4.9%
2022	13	2.8%
2023	4	0.9%
2024	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 251

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 220

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 73

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 54

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 28

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 28

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 24

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 22

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 20

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 15

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 15

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 12

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 10

Top 15 of 85 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 53.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #944 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. against Trading Technologies International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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